KSKA.  Soon after BP and ConocoPhillips announced plans to combine resources to start Denali – The Alaska Gas Pipeline in April 2008, Bud Fackrell (NGP Photo) was appointed president of the project, which would eventually ship 4 billion cubic feet of natural gas a day from the North Slope to the Lower 48, Alaska and Canada. His talk, “Denali – an update on the Alaska gas pipeline project: a world class effort with global implications” was recorded on Friday October 30th at the Alaska World Affairs Council.

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Politico reports, “While Sen. Barbara Boxer was celebrating her committee’s passage of a sweeping climate change bill Thursday, other Democrats and Republicans were already looking for a Plan B. “It dooms that particular legislation. The question is what comes next,” said Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo). “We will see what Plan B is.” Graham said his group would take the “good pieces” of the work by Boxer and the five other committees.”     *     FitsNews reports, “Last week, FITS published an in-depth report about how liberal special interests were the real driving force behind a new “conservative” advertising campaign aimed at protecting embattled U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham.     *      The Washington Post reports, “Now, some groups have muted their alarms about wildfires, shrinking glaciers and rising seas. Not because they’ve stopped caring about them — but because they’re trying to win over people who might care more about a climate bill’s non-environmental side benefits, such as "green" jobs and reduced oil imports. Instead, one spot from the EDF shows solar panels and windmills, while an announcer talks about jobs and a reduced dependence on foreign oil. "We need more renewable energy that’s made in America and works for America, creating 1.7 million jobs," the narrator says. The spot doesn’t mention the word "climate" and instead talks about cutting "carbon pollution," using a phrase common in recent ads by several groups.”     *     The Cascade Policy Institute’s Todd Wynn writes this in the Statesman (OR) Journal, “Because a cap-and-trade program is essentially an energy tax, the program would have an enormous effect on Americans by increasing the costs of almost everything that is needed or desired in our daily lives. Unfortunately, the majority of Americans do not have a clue about what a cap-and-trade program actually is and thus are unable to voice their possible concerns.”